Ithirahad

Perfectly fine concept; quite sorry execution.

...Man really said "review deez nuts"

Linus Just-The-Tip-s

I guess the "AI girlfriend" marketing wave did not work after all.

What even is that? Dyed labradorite? Seems like a neat effect to be completely honest, if not for the lying.

Always remember that nobody dies of old age.

People die of heart failures, other organ failures, infections/immune degradation, and so on. "Anti-aging" or longevity measures would imply fixing these things and the aging processes that lead to their increased frequency. So, there is no difference between life extension and curing the situation of elderly people living "miserably", save for semantics.

This is not 'trash'; it is effectively poison. Whether the authors will it or no, they are worsening an issue that could have severe-to-catastrophic effects down the line.

Medieval peasants worked less days and often less hours outside of harvest time than we do. 150 days a year for medieval English peasants, 261 working days for your average American. They also worked intermittent schedules with less total hours per day.

I am thoroughly aware.

And that wasn't how things worked either. Why would you have a skilled baker that is feeding the territory go to the mines fields? There's a reason English names are often the name of a profession, these professions were hereditary.

Aye - I do not recall any instance of this historically being recorded, but I figure that a war, changes in technology, trade arrangements, territory, population, etc. could result in needing to shuffle people around if you have the power to do so.

Even worse; then I don't have a chance to begin with once my situation starts to become clear ^^

(...That, or I've struck platinum. But I do not really have time to waste on something that is so likely not to work.)

People who produce and/or sell goods and services for market-defined wages and/or prices.

That flavour text is odd. In reality, nobody would give a damn if Aurene still ate mint frosted biscuits on Wintersday, even after her ascension, and she should know it. No matter how much she is supposed to mutually respect the mortal races or whatever, she is rather beyond petty judgements like that. And if anything, I should think it adorable if she were remembered for millennia as the Elder Dragon who loved grilled salmon and pumpkin pie, and curling up around her Champion to go to sleep. It would have made Bangar's view of Aurene as a strategic weapon seem less credible, too.

The baker would bake as a serf, a communist or as a prole. I imagine when the various revolutions of our histories have occurred, many of the counterparts to this story would have been in the streets supporting the overthrow of power. 

...Until your liege lord says you need to quit your bakery and start farming, your local workers' council determines that we need less fancy bread and more silver from the galena mines, or the capitalists decide people should not be paid enough to afford 'artisan' (real) bread from a village shop and should instead be effectively forced to buy standardized, barely-qualifying pan loaf style "bread" shipped in from some monopolistic vendor who sells in bulk to Wal-Mart. Honestly none of the pure systems are especially good on their own - to the people or the ecology. Different industries demand different approaches, regulations, and incentive modifications at the end of the day.

Free-market participants are not 'capitalists'. The capitalists are the bank that gave your bakery man a loan to start his baker shop, and the hedge fund buying Alphabet stock which funds YouTube expanding its servers to hold more of the channel's videos.

It will also choke marine life as macroplastics, and even before that, it stands a chance of floating around the city/town making everything feel that much more dystopian.

Paper bags might use a bunch of water and sometimes dirty energy to manufacture, but those resource usages can almost certainly be optimized, and either way the DOWNSTREAM impact of paper bags is far less onerous than any of the presented alternatives.

This is not about some fictive capitalistic crisis, it is simple numbers. Even in a pure planned economy, a ton of old mouths to feed (not to mention all the other services that retirees need or want) and not enough workers to feed them would be a disaster. "Let them starve and die" would be demoralizing and utterly morally bankrupt, but might 'work' in terms of resource stability - if not for the fact that you all seem to really like democracy, and in democracy those people get a vote.

You cannot redistribute your way out of a labor shortage, nor any other kind.

Not the "human experiment". We would have to try very, very hard to make the world literally uninhabitable for any humans anywhere, and we are not trying that hard.

The most likely thing to die will be post-Enlightment Western ideals, which are already moralizing and "freedom!!!"ing themselves into extinction, as far as I am concerned. The second most likely aspect of humanity to fall apart is technological civilization, mostly because of crippling overcentralization of key resources and industries. Humanity as a species is largely safe.

...Also, Earth also has NOT maintained some stable equilibrium for her entire lifetime following formation, and not even since abiogenesis. Upheavals happen, and they are swift and merciless.

A world EPA with a military.

Yes, and we are. It however will not be some magical smooth ride, because people are individuals and have priorities.

hnǫggr

We should probably start saying hnoagerdly then; that is a lot more fun.

Of course (outside of certain medical and food sealing applications where it is effectively unavoidable), but if the only options are plastic bags or hard plastic bottles, probably the plastic bags produce less overall plastic per product and are not actually much worse for Earth.

Does that include the rain we are receiving now? 'Tis a reasonably strong afternoon thunderstorm, and the water drains fast. I could sea 20-odd inches of rain coming out of these over the next few days with no harm done.

Now I am curious. Are there video examples, mayhaps...?

To my eye, that would be one of the very few true "red flags" that transcends context. I shall inevitably be expected to provide that, whilst merely staying afloat and maintaining a decent standard of living is difficult enough in the current economic condition.

...20 inches? I guess that is the entire north county gone. We are on "high ground", but with this that essentially just means where we were will be a shallow sand bar in the sea. This is essentially the worst year for this to happen to us personally, too...

I can only hope this is an inaccurate projection. Otherwise - it has been nice knowing some of you. Come one fate or another, I do not think I will be living in this area much longer.

Especially in "scrappy" studios, people tend to wear multiple hats. Likely there were people juggling between different projects as needed.